Month: November 2007

Well, we made our afternoon-trip to Geelong yesterday to check out the puppies. It was a lovely day, our Hyundai Getz rental car hummed from Melbourne to Geelong and back on $15 worth of fuel (I kid you not) and we were lucky enough to spend a couple of hours cuddling all different puppies from the litter and chatting to the breeder. We ended up choosing a lovely boy for us (Bradman) and a girl for Clare’s mum (who’s name is going to be Jess… we believe… although it’s changed a couple of times already).

This is Bradman

This is Jess

I took a heap of happy snaps with the camera and am sooo glad I upgraded, it’s far, far better than the Canon S2IS that I had been using. I’m still coming to grips with all the options, it’s a big jump going to a digital SLR and I fear it’s still a little bit too much camera for me a the moment. But still, with practice…

Well, we’ve actually managed to find a puppy it seems! There is a litter that’s just been born at a breeder in Geelong, and after speaking to her today we’ve decided to go up there in a couple of weeks (on the 17th) to look at them and potentially pick a couple out. Flights and car are booked… fingers crossed all goes to plan. Hooray!!

Ironically, the grandfather of the puppies is from the Kaparla kennel down in Hobart (Kaparla Loch Invar, about 13 dogs down) who is one of the breeders we’ve been speaking to locally.

In other news, I bought a Canon EOS 400D the other day. Twin lens kit, 2 batteries, 2gig SD card, etc – from eBay. Hopefully it’ll turn up this week so that I can start playing!!

Okay, so Clare and I have been wanting a puppy for a while now – a Golden Retriever. He’s even got a name but I won’t mention it until we’ve got him.

We’ve both got time off work booked between Christmas and January to bring him home and acclimatise him to our place before we start leaving him alone for longer periods.

Anyway… we’ve been talking to the puppy referral officer of the Tasmanian Golden Retriever Club about where to get one…. and we thought we’d get a puppy out of a litter that was due from one of their member’s bitches on the 31st of October. But today we got the sad phone call that the litter was born this week and there were only 2 puppies in it 🙁 As we were about 3rd or 4th in the queue, we missed out. So now we’re scratching ourselves wondering if anyone else has a litter due now! Puppies aren’t usually ready to take home until they’re about 8-10 weeks old, and we can’t take a puppy any earlier than Christmas… so we’re hoping we can find someone!

We’d much prefer to get one here in Tassie so we can view the parents etc… but I guess worst case scenario we can buy from the mainland. There’s a few different breeders advertising them in the Trading Post, etc. I have bought my last 3 cars from the mainland so it’s not like it’d be the first time I’ve bought stuff from the “big island”!